We're almost to 200 users, so I'd like to expand upon some of the content we have here. Namely, reviews, what a good style is, and flair.

First of all, flair is the little text box floating next to your name. Mine at the moment says 'Salted Rim' because I am not creative. If you do a review, you get flair! You get to pick whatever it says.

Now, onto the reviews:

Reviews should at minimum have a few words about what you had, how you tasted it, and your good/bad or buy/no buy rating.

A more full review would have a few notes on what the drink smelled like, tasted like, the aftertaste, and a score.

As far as score goes, I tend to take the following into account:

How good the drink was

How much it costs (bottle cost)

What kind of niche it is aimed at and how it compares with others in that niche

This means that, for example, I would rate a bottom-shelf tequila like Agavales ($20 for 1.75L) higher than a top-shelf tequila like Patron (usually $40+ for 750mL) because the former is a good-tasting, 100% agave tequila that makes a very good rail or house tequila (final prognosis: way better than its niche), whereas Patron is priced double what it should be based on its quality and does not work as a top-shelf tequila in blind tasting, only in name (final prognosis: mid-shelf at top-shelf price).

Basically, whether it is 100% agave, and if so, how well the spirit is made. For example, some tequilas are made by crushing the pina with a stone wheel, others with a hydraulic press, and still others with sulfuric acid. If you don't know the details, 100% agave or not and your impression of inner quality will do.

Niche comparison (10 / 100)

For blanco/reposado/cheap bottles: This includes how well it works in a cocktail (5 / 10)

Again, self-explanatory; just comparing against others in the class by cost, and how well it works mixed. If it's a bottle that you wouldn't mix, then don't mix it.

You may have noticed that the last part can go as low as -10; this is because some packaging is so horrendous I'll take off points just for how it looks. It also allows going to over 100; if you find the best tequila ever and the bottle looks great, hey, why not?

To use two of my examples of cheap tequilas:

Agavales Gold

Taste: 60 / 75 (inoffensive)

Cost: 7 / 10 ($12 for a bottle? not bad)

Production quality: 100% agave, probably made on the cheap, gold is not reposado 2 / 5

Niche comparison: favorable against most rail tequilas, but only slightly cheaper and not as good as el jimador reposado, works fine in a not very refined cocktail (read: college cocktail) 7 / 10